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When someone says "the School, the Law School, or the University," should these be capitalized?

For example - "The University of BLANK Law school is 'whatever,'" and then in another sentence you mention the school again by referring to it as "the University, the School, etc." These should be capitalized, correct?

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I looked at the schools website and saw how each one referred to itself and copied that.

And, unfortunately, some refer to themselves in multiple ways....

Look for the best, or most similar context to what you will be doing.

Use full name whenever you mention school or an acceptable short cite. "I was interested in Michigan Law" or "Michigan", don't capitalize in a general reference, "I knew I wanted to go to law school. Never do the "the University" thing.

Cupidity wrote:Use full name whenever you mention school or an acceptable short cite. "I was interested in Michigan Law" or "Michigan", don't capitalize in a general reference, "I knew I wanted to go to law school. Never do the "the University" thing.

I know that you would never capitalize here: "I knew I wanted to go to law school." However, would capitalize here: "I knew I wanted to go to the Law School (or simply School)?"

Say, "I knew I wanted to go to University of Virginia School of Law"

Cupidity wrote:Say, "I knew I wanted to go to University of Virginia School of Law"

This is what I would prefer to use, but if I've already said the same of the school a couple times already, it sounds funny. This is why I just want to say "School" instead of writing out the entire name four times.

Abbreviate to U.Va. then or UM/UMich or whatever they refer to themselves as.

2014 wrote:Abbreviate to U.Va. then or UM/UMich or whatever they refer to themselves as.

Do you think it would be alright to use those abbreviations without adding Law, Law School, or School of Law right after them?

I am certain schools aren't really going to care as long as you are basically grammatically correct.

2014 wrote:Abbreviate to U.Va. then or UM/UMich or whatever they refer to themselves as.

scUM.

nphsbuckeye wrote:

2014 wrote:Abbreviate to U.Va. then or UM/UMich or whatever they refer to themselves as.

scUM.

That's creative!
We could just abbreviate Ohio State down to TTT

2014 wrote:

nphsbuckeye wrote:

2014 wrote:Abbreviate to U.Va. then or UM/UMich or whatever they refer to themselves as.

scUM.

That's creative!
We could just abbreviate Ohio State down to TTT

Or something like "7 in a row"

2014 wrote:

nphsbuckeye wrote:

2014 wrote:Abbreviate to U.Va. then or UM/UMich or whatever they refer to themselves as.

scUM.

That's creative!
We could just abbreviate Ohio State down to TTT

Rich Rod is scUM's head coach. He can't even get away with sneaking extra hours into practice.

FWIW, I have nothing against scUM, per se (however, I loate Walmart Wolverines), and would like to be an alum of OSU and UM.

Do people really say things like: "I have wanted to go to ________ since I was a young child"?

It's so cliched and there are a bunch of different ways to drop this bit of info.